"Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time."

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Source : John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Let Me In”, p.271, Macmillan

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#Long Quotes #Twelve Quotes

“I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.”
“I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization. The vanity (if not outrage) of trying to cage this dance of atoms in a single definition may give the weariness of age with the cry of youth for answers the appearance of boredom.”
“Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.”
“I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors.”
“Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.”

Source : Bernard Crick (1954). “In defence of politics”, p.11, Bernard Crick
“Tell them we'll be dancing, dancing 'til we drop, it's time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.”
“Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.”

Source : Reynolds Price (1998). “Clear Pictures: First Loves First Guides”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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